Warning: Details in this article are disturbing and may be upsetting for readersA young North Carolina man accused of decapitating his mother has been found not guilty by reason of insanity. According to WTVD, Oliver Machado, now 20, said, "I'm sorry if I let my family down" Monday in court. According to WNCN, a judge ruled that although Machado is now competent to stand trial, he was insane at the time of the crime.“He believed he was directed by God to harm his mother so that she could go to heaven, and as such, believed that his action was not inherently wrong,” said Superior Court Judge Henry Hight Jr. He will be committed to a mental health facility. Investigators said Machado admitted to killing his mother in their Franklin County home on March 6, 2017. Machado was 18 years old at the time.Asked why he killed her, he told the dispatcher “because I felt like it,” according to the court document. When asked whether he had checked to see if his mother was still breathing, he responded: “She’s dead.”The first deputy on the scene saw the suspect leave the house “carrying a knife in one hand and a severed human head in the other,” the court documents state. The warrants say a large, bloody kitchen knife and the mother’s head were collected from the front yard by investigators.A search warrant indicates the deputies found his mother’s body between the kitchen and living room, and that two younger siblings were in the house as well.Warrants say he was on four medications for a psychiatric condition. A psychiatrist who met with Machado days after the murder said he was happy he was able to send his mom to heaven. He had reportedly been suffering from psychosis and schizophrenia and was released from a mental health treatment center one week before the slaying. “He’s a pretty profoundly disturbed young man,” his public defender, attorney C. Boyd Sturges III, said after speaking with him at the jail.

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A young North Carolina man accused of decapitating his mother has been found not guilty by reason of insanity.

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According to WTVD, Oliver Machado, now 20, said, "I'm sorry if I let my family down" Monday in court.

According to WNCN, a judge ruled that although Machado is now competent to stand trial, he was insane at the time of the crime.

“He believed he was directed by God to harm his mother so that she could go to heaven, and as such, believed that his action was not inherently wrong,” said Superior Court Judge Henry Hight Jr.

He will be committed to a mental health facility.

Investigators said Machado admitted to killing his mother in their Franklin County home on March 6, 2017. Machado was 18 years old at the time.

Asked why he killed her, he told the dispatcher “because I felt like it,” according to the court document. When asked whether he had checked to see if his mother was still breathing, he responded: “She’s dead.”

The first deputy on the scene saw the suspect leave the house “carrying a knife in one hand and a severed human head in the other,” the court documents state. The warrants say a large, bloody kitchen knife and the mother’s head were collected from the front yard by investigators.

A search warrant indicates the deputies found his mother’s body between the kitchen and living room, and that two younger siblings were in the house as well.

Warrants say he was on four medications for a psychiatric condition. A psychiatrist who met with Machado days after the murder said he was happy he was able to send his mom to heaven. He had reportedly been suffering from psychosis and schizophrenia and was released from a mental health treatment center one week before the slaying.

“He’s a pretty profoundly disturbed young man,” his public defender, attorney C. Boyd Sturges III, said after speaking with him at the jail.